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Chronological vs. Functional Resumes – Which To Choose?

Your resume is a marketing tool that should effectively sell your skills, experience, and educational qualifications to prospective employers. When developing your resume, there are two different types of resume formats you should consider: a chronological resume and a functional resume. Your decision to choose one format over another should be dependent on your career background and personal circumstances. The…

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Chemical Engineering – A Convincing Argument

Professor: So…You are interested in studying Chemical Engineering? Student: Mmmm. Dunno, all that pollution and stuff is pretty bad. Professor: You think the industry is the source of most pollution then? Student: Obviously. Professor: You have done research into this? Student: Hummph. No need to, everyone knows that is true. Professor: Really? My research tells me differently. Tell me, what…

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Career Test – Are You A Crisis Creator And Manager?

Management by crisis has become one of the most popular terms. These people allow a crisis to develop and then act upon it. They never try to anticipate a crisis, but act only when the full-blown crisis arrives. Why do they manage like this? They behave in this way because they subconsciously enjoy fighting crisis, and for that they manufacture…

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Career Growth – Optimism Helps

What helps in growth of our career? A good plan, ability to do the job effectively, improving the existing methods, increasing the efficiency, increasing the returns, and performing the job to satisfaction. What else? The title of this article talks of optimism. What about that? What is optimism? Optimism means to feel that things will turn out Ok. Not to…

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Career Choice – The considerations

How does one decide one’s career? How does one decide and take a decision that may shape the life excellently or doom it forever? It is not as if nobody has the right or opportunity to choose their own vocations. Circumstances decide the way things will go. But it is true that many people when asked, will say that they…

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Career – Are You Facing Burnout?

Chronic stress over a period of time may make you feel totally helpless and unable to cope up with demands of life. This can cause burn out. When in a job, you feel that you are overburdened, and under appreciated, that the demands of the job are increasing and despite all your efforts you are not able to manage the…

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Career – Test Your Negotiation Skills

Negotiation is part of every professional’s life. To negotiate, means to arrive at an understanding with another person, so that both of you are satisfied with the results. Do you know what is your skill in negotiation? If not, why not test and find out because most of our interactions demand negotiation. You are negotiating with your love partner about…

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Breaking The Silence – Forensic Nursing

It was in 1992 when the term Forensic nursing was first heard. But what is it exactly? Forensic nursing is a specialty field that deals with the care of crime victims, collecting evidences and providing health care services in the prison system. It is a combined health care and judicial system profession to be precise. International Association of Forensic Nurses…

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